About Heywood

A mill town, Heywood thrived during the industrial revolution. Heywood has the nickname 'Monkey Town', thought to derive from an area called Heap Bridge, or 'ape bridge' as it sounds in the local accent. Heywood's population is 30,000. It became part of Rochdale in 1974. The Heywood family appear at two key moments in British history. Peter Heywood prevented the Gunpowder plot and arrested Guy Fawkes. A second Peter joined the mutineers aboard HMS Bounty.

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regional daily with up to 130,485 copies - as well as 20 local weekly titles across Greater
Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire.

Free morning newspaper, The Metro, published every weekday, is also part of our portfolio,
delivering more than 200,000 readers in Greater Manchester.

Greater Manchester Business Week is the region’s number one provider of business news andfeatures, targeting a bespoke business audience with 12,687 copies every Thursday.

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